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This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

El autor nos presenta los diferentes puntos de vista a los que las obras literarias han sido sometidas por los distintos críticos y traductores. Según los estudios que aparecen en esta obra, se debe tener siempre presente que una obra literaria puede ser interpretada y también traducida de forma diferente según los enfoques a los que sea sometido el texto (literarios, lingüísticos, religiosos, políticos, etc.).

Offers beginners a proven, step-by-step method of teaching oneself to speak Spanish with conversational ease

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...